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[quote user="Erie Lackawanna"] On the FL9 versus the Fairbanks Morse engine issue - I remember reading somewhere (probably TRAINS) that EMD threatened New Haven fairly overtly that if they chose the Fairbanks Morse engine, a lot of the GM cars going by New Haven would be switched (to trucks I guess).Again, the FL9 eventually proved itself to be a hell of a locomotive, but the story, if true, speaks to GM's (and later GE's) ability to sway buyers their way.ALCO, Baldwin, Fairbanks Morse, and others, weren't also huge railroad clients, like GM and GE were.  (Fact that GM made a superior product, also helped, don't get me wrong - but it's an interesting aside.)[/quote]Well, that brings me to another supposition.  Since the Milwaukee was an unabashed FM customer, at least for it's Olympian Hiawatha, I wonder if they ever considered producing a version of the dual mode P-12-42 aka "Speed Merchant" that could run under Milwaukee's 3kv catenary, rather than using the Erie-builds the whole way from Chicago to Seattle?  Did the OH ever use Joes as helpers for the FM-powered version, or was the three unit FM consist sufficient across the system?Would that same cost differential apply regarding the Erie-builds vs the Speed Merchants?
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